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The best Arctic and Antarctic cruises

The Northwest Passage This sea route to the Orient across the roof of North America eluded explorers across several centuries, but retreating pack ice means certain vessels can now sail between Greenland and Alaska and the Beaufort Sea, an epic journey offering glaciers, fjords, and other majestic Arctic landscapes, along with a range of unique excursions and rare wildlife sightings of polar bears, narwhals and musk oxen. Crystal Cruises (020 7399 7601; crystalcruises.co.uk
) offers a Northwest Passage cruise from £15,430 per person cruise-only, departing Anchorage on August 16, 2016, and arriving in New York on September 16.